On Tue, 2007-02-13 at 20:21 +0000, Robert McWilliam wrote: > On Tue, 13 Feb 2007 19:53:49 +0000 > Alan Pope <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > That doesn't look right. As far as I recall Linux kernel 2.4 has never > > been shipped with Ubuntu. It's always had 2.6. > > There are 2.4 kernels in the archives even though the default > installed is 2.6: > http://packages.ubuntu.com/edgy/base/kernel-image-2.4.27-2-386 >
Not in the standard "main" repo they aren't. They are in Universe. So you wouldn't get that out of the box, only if you enabled universe and installed it yourself. > kernel-* is 2.4 > Not quite. Those are Debian kernels, Ubuntu ones are called linux*, Debian kernels (of any version) are all called kernel-*. This is from my Debian server:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l kernel-image-* | grep ^ii ii kernel-image-2 101sarge1 Linux kernel image for version 2.4 on PPro/C ii kernel-image-2 2.4.27-6 Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27 on PPr ii kernel-image-2 2.4.27-10sarge Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27 on PPr ii kernel-image-2 2.4.27-10sarge Linux kernel image for version 2.4.27 on PPr ii kernel-image-2 101sarge1 Linux kernel image for version 2.6 on PPro/C ii kernel-image-2 2.6.8-16sarge1 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro ii kernel-image-2 2.6.8-16sarge6 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.8 on PPro And this is on my Ubuntu desktop:- [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~$ dpkg -l linux-image-2.6* | grep ^ii ii linux-image-2.6.20-2-386 2.6.20-2.2 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.20 on i38 ii linux-image-2.6.20-2-generic 2.6.20-2.2 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.20 on x86 ii linux-image-2.6.20-3-generic 2.6.20-3.4 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.20 on x86 ii linux-image-2.6.20-4-generic 2.6.20-4.6 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.20 on x86 ii linux-image-2.6.20-5-generic 2.6.20-5.7 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.20 on x86 ii linux-image-2.6.20-6-generic 2.6.20-6.11 Linux kernel image for version 2.6.20 on x86 Cheers, Al.
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